Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volume 27, Issue 53, April 2019

Perspectivas e Fronteiras do Humanos II

Jane Duran
Pages 111-122

Political Acts and Terrorism
A New Analysis

Recent work in the ethics of care is used as a point of departure for thought about the kinds of social conditions that lead to terrorism. Allusion is made to the work of Bayoumi, Held and others, and it is concluded that political acts of terror are often a response to a climate of hostility, including microaggression.